have you ever created an internet meme/phenomenon?

Q: I created a macro that I thought was sort of funny, not amazing, and posted it to a group, and it looks like it's going to have about 1000 likes and maybe like 50-75 shares within its first 24 hours. Is this considered "viral"?

50-75 first degree shares, I mean. No idea how many of those will result in additional shares, if any.

idk man, most of my fb updates hit 750 likes the first 24 hours, I think that meme inflation has had a srs effect on what can be called 'viral' in 2015

obv we'll be seeing that macro

Well this is it. If you ever see it independent of ILX bump this thread.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156020032805304&set=gm.455065204704013&type=3

er
http://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12004776_10156020032805304_3157398908000492769_n.jpg?oh=cf5be91a899392f567113d3241a89f34&oe=56600B83

hmmn

see, I guess that's sort of funny but it seemed pretty easy -- combined the Latvia potato joke meme with the pumpkin spice backlash.

yet it's more popular than stuff I have posted that I thought was funnier

It didn't really make me laugh so much as I could picture people laughing at it

would share

A sign I made and posted where I work gets photographed by people all the time, a few years back it made the front page of reddit. I still google it from time to time to see where it has ended up. It's all over tumblr and clickbait sites.

I coined the phrase "skull custard". It has gone viral among certain cognoscenti in Ulan Bator.

Top for 2016

just played meme at an awesome internet show

BRB just going to the conference room...

it's not exactly what OP asked, but for these last six years, I have been quietly funded by illuminati to monitor the spread of internet meme & eliminate any meme whose popularity pose a threat to their power

I thought that was Forks' job?

Sorry, the Evil Forks.

I contributed to an internet phenomenon that got an increasing amount of ILXor shade over time.

This did actually happen to a friend of mine - she took an amusing photo of a cat with a funny name at the vet where she works and posted it to Tumblr. An hour later, it had 20,000 notes; over night it had 200,000. Her Tumblr became completely unusable; I got an email from her saying that she had created a new Tumblr so contact her on there because she was so swamped with notifications she couldn't actually turn it off.

It was all over the internet within days; like seeing tweets of the photo from people who had no idea who she was, didn't even live in the same country. It got content farmed all over the place, ended up on Reddit, Cheeseburger, even just googling to find the original post revealed that there are soundcloud songs about the photo. It's bizarre.

She said she found it a fairly overwhelming and mostly unpleasant experience (not least because the photo could have got her fired!) - it wasn't even the first time something like that had happened - another photo she took got a caption stuck on it, and posted to another blog, but that was only in the 10s of thousands of hits, not the 100s.

The attention span of something like this is bizarre, because it's this huge wave, and someone must be making a load of money off the traffic, but it sure wasn't the person who took the photo!

i know the person who took the picture discussed here: http://jalopnik.com/5602600/i-am-very-sorry-segway-stroller-lady

A couple I know are condo-hunting in Chicago and shared this listing last month on their Facebook page. I shared it, and a bunch of friends more tied to media, etc., shared it on their pages, and a week later it was in the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418264/Chicago-condo-untouched-1970s-hits-market-just-158-000.html

Wow I can't believe Aimless came up with skull custard. My niece and nephew in Mongolia are all about that.

There is nothing progressive or interesting about meme culture. It's a terminal medium based on pure convenience and exposure that is reactionary in nature. and was manmade by the CIA to reduce our capacity for creative thought

— John V. Variety (@johnvvariety) October 13, 2018

Tinfoil hat shields you from memes

There is nothing progressive or interesting about meme culture. It's a terminal medium based on pure convenience and exposure that is reactionary in nature. and was manmade by the CIA to reduce our capacity for creative thought

Memes are Dadaist culture on a massive scale

lol at "manmade"

everyone knows memes are a naturally occurring fungus

It's truly burdensome to suddenly rise above the sheeple and peer all the way into the Matrix at the same time that you're finally old enough to buy lottery tickets and cigarettes.